*avoid* gskill 2GBZX with DS3

[davvy76]

Well I had made the mistake of getting the ZX with my DS3 and the computer didn't post, and I didn't have any spare 240pin ram around and the cheapest stick in town was $60.

I'm atleast glad that this makes it 99% sure why my new pc didn't work.

What happened to you guys with the DS3 and this ram when turning on the computer, would it just sit on with the fans running, or would it endlessly restart?

My system at first would power on for a second, lose power, then come back on and just sit there. I could hold the button for 5 seconds to shutdown and it would not do that 1 second shutdown thing from then on until turning off the psu and pulling the power cable and trying to turn it on again. But after messing with it by disconnecting things and reconnecting and so on before I learned of this ram problem it now just turns, then off, then on, then off, and so on without the cpu fan never getting a chance to spin up.

I'm nervously waiting for some Corsair ram that ZipZoomFly has been processing for 2 days even though I selected overnight, so it won't ship until tomorrow, arriving Firday morning.

I'm so scared of how the system has been running and with no indicating lights on the mobo or beeps I have no idea if something else is wrong.

If I had known ZZF would take so long I would have bought that extra stick of ram to start and test the system and done an exchange with Gskill overtime.

Endless restarting with the nr until I booted with some kingston and set to 2.3v and 5-5-5-15. Saved, whipped the kingston out put a stick of g.skill in, booted to windows logo, froze. Inserted second stick of g.skill just for the sake of it, black screen, no self test. Inserted g.skill in different slots same result. Inserted g.skill in bag and posted back, bought another stick of kingston 533 and am now running happily at 400x7, 1:1, 1.9v, 5-5-5-15, bios f4c

[tuoho]

Will newest bios fix issue with gskill 2gbnr?

[Luck.exe]

Will newest bios fix issue with gskill 2gbnr?

That stuff worked straight out of the box with F1 bios for me. Didn't even have to adjust the voltage on the ram (but I have it set to +.2v).

[delas52]

davvy, you might be interested to know my 2GBNR has been working perfectley.

[davvy76]

davvy, you might be interested to know my 2GBNR has been working perfectley.

Well mines gone back now so either it was bad or didnt like the f4c bios, pleased its working for you though. If you visit the ocuk forums theres users there with the same issue I had

[Richard Dower]

The ZX kit will not POST with 1.8V, but it did POST with 1.95V using the DQ6 F3g beta bios.

My memory timings appear to be stable @ 4-4-4-12 (set manually) and do not appear to change any longer.

I've decided not to RMA my RAM as it appears to be ok, save for the hassle of taking the memory out when doing bios flashes etc.

[andlcs]

maybe WPCREDIT can read the actual cas latency. . .

[pavels555]

i have P5B... and it doest work either with 800Mhz ZX

so. iwant to exchange it with PK..

but i read in newegg the reviews.. and they r talking about problems with C2D too...

[Richard Dower]

Update on this...with F4d the memory NEEDS 2.2V to even boot. anything less it will not post. With F3 it would POST with 1.950V...now it won't.

Gigabyte bios is getting worse with each release.